The Madwoman’s Underclothes

“[Greer] is, perhaps, one of the marvelous letter writers of an age that no longer trifles with them much. Her essays, columns and books–transcripts…

Literal Madness

“Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na’veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics…

Life and Death in Shanghai

“The extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman who, despite 6 1/2 long years of imprisonment and torment in Communist China, not only survived but…

In Memoriam to Identity

Great Expectations

Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation…

Empire of the Senseless

Kathy Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own…

Don Quixote

“Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know.” –Tom LeClair, The New York Times Book Review

Composing a Life

“A masterwork of rare breadth and particularity, encompassing all the rhythms of five lives and friendships, and interweaving their stories in ways that reveal…

The Almond

“Nedjma . . . has a gift for turning a beautiful phrase obscene and vice versa. . . . The novel is so genuinely…

Pussy, King of the Pirates

“Acker discards, mangles, and rewrites literary conventions. Using words as weapons to smash her way into modernity, she pushes language to the tension point,…